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Chris Rowan is a geologist specialising in the dark arts of paleomagnetism, and getting people to pay him to travel to exotic destinations for fieldwork. Having drilled up New Zealand during his PhD, and South Africa in his first post-doc, he now works at the University of Edinburgh.
Anne Jefferson has a love of all things water-related and blends hydrology, geomorphology, geology, and climate change in her work. She has a Ph.D. from Oregon State University and is now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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November 29, 2008
Category: geology
Remember those controversional macro- and trace fossils from the 2 billion year-old Stirling formation? They seemed to offer the intriguing possibility that multicellular life may have popped into being far earlier in Earth history than is generally supposed. However, this...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:58 AM • 1 Comments •
November 28, 2008
Category: bloggery
Full arc here, here and here. I guess the more serious question is: at what stage do you say, "maybe this isn't going to work out?" I don't think that I could endure six consecutive two-year postdocs without feeling...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:28 AM • 6 Comments •
November 26, 2008
Category: geology
I'm just about settled in in my new office at The University of Edinburgh, so hopefully regular blogging should resume soon. In the meantimes, perhaps more interesting than my geographical shift is my temporal one; starting a new project means...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:52 AM • 11 Comments •
November 15, 2008
Category: bloggery
Things are, understandably, a bit busy for me at the moment. But a number of inter-flat hunt coffee breaks have given me the chance to scribble a couple of contributions to the haiku meme started by suvrat. Have drill, will...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:26 AM • 4 Comments •
November 11, 2008
Category: academic life
I'm moving.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 9:42 AM • 17 Comments •
November 10, 2008
Category: geology
Very messy geologically, very pretty photographically - and studied by Charles Darwin.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:28 AM • 2 Comments •
November 7, 2008
Category: geopuzzling
A giant limnological mystery in Canada.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:36 AM • 13 Comments •
November 5, 2008
Category: bloggery
It's all you're getting from this blogger.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 5:01 AM • 6 Comments •
November 4, 2008
Category: fieldwork
Granites, sandstones and angular uncomformities
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:22 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: bloggery
Time is running out to submit entries for the next edition of the Open Laboratory blogging anthology, and running down Bora's latest list of posts submitted so far reveals very few geologically-themed ones. In fact, I could find but...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:06 AM • 4 Comments •
